Spirit Essences Safe Space is for the cat who has boundary issues, such as spraying because of a neighbor's cat outside, or who is stressed because of territory conflicts with other animals in the home.

About Spirit Essences

Spirit Essence remedies are not like medicines or drugs and need not be swallowed; once the drops contact the animal, they are doing their job.

Easy Ways to Administer SpiritEssences

Give directly by mouth

Add a few drops to a treat or food

Add a dropperful to the water bowl

Add a dropperful to spring water in a spray bottle, and use this mixture to spray a room, carrier, bedding, car interior, litter box area, stall, trailer, or other specific problem area. Misting the house or apartment is a great way to treat the whole household

Apply a few drops to a favorite toy

Put a few drops in your hand and rub around the animal's head, ears, and/or paws.

You want your animal companion to think of the remedy as a good thing, so never try to force it. Use one of the alternate methods if your animal does not like its mouth to be handled. See below for instructions on administering SpiritEssences.

For most behavioral or emotional problems, we recommend starting with 3 or 4 times a day, for 2 weeks. Once improvement is established, usually within 2-4 weeks, you can wean the animal off by gradually decreasing the frequency of administration. A few animals may need to remain on essence treatment long term. Adding a few drops to the drinking water, or once-a-day administration by mouth, will probably be adequate. We have also found that most animals will also benefit from long-term administration of a maintenance formula.

In cases where the problem is mild, or had an acute cause, such as death of a companion or a move to a new house you may only need to use the prescription a few times before the problem is solved. In that case, the prescription may be discontinued.

For situations where you can catch the animal when it is doing the problem behavior, giving the prescription at that moment may be especially helpful. For instance, if the problem is compulsive licking, give the prescription when you see the animal licking, either by mouth or topically (as long as the skin is not raw or irritated) so that the animal licks the drops off its skin.

Remember that SpiritEssences are not treating specific behaviors, but rather the emotional or energetic imbalances underlying them. By helping the animal feel happier and more secure, we increase the likelihood that behavioral problems will be correspondingly diminished or eliminated. While no treatment can be guaranteed to work 100% for every single case, it is a very rare animal that does not noticeably respond to SpiritEssences.

Try not to let the dropper contact anything that can cause contamination when the dropper is put back in the bottle. However, if this occurs, simply rinse the dropper in hot running water before replacing it in the bottle.

If you are treating only one animal in a multi-animal household, it is perfectly all right to put the prescription in the common drinking water. It will not adversely affect the other animals, and may even be beneficial if those particular essences are also appropriate for them. If several animals in a household are being given different essence combinations, administer the drops by mouth or topically around the head and ears. For some of our formula sets, a base formula is given in the common drinking water, and specific formulas are given to each animal individually.

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The reviews below are presented for informational purposes only and are not intended as an endorsement of any product. The information is not intended to be a substitute for visits to your local veterinarian. Instead, these testimonials offer the reader information and opinions written by pet owners and/or veterinarians concerning animal health and products that they have used.

I used this on my male neutered cat who developed marking issues due to two new kittens I adopted. I rubbed it on his fur two to three times per day and it seemed to help him relax a little and not mark as often. He used to mark throughout the house whenever he walked by something, ten times or more per day, now it is much less frequently.

We have 4 cats - two of the males (2 yrs old and 10 yrs old) have recently begun a marking contest. Not a little spray but really peeing all over the house. We've taken them to the vet - no problem with the urinary tracts or anything else. I've used enzyme cleaner and phermone spray (twice a day) for a couple of months. The problems lessened but have not completely stopped. I bought the Safe Space as a last resort. It was used as recommended and given for a couple of weeks. When I put it in the water bowls the cats got jumpy. The cats all seemed to go on high alert. I've since rubbed it on and given it on treats only to the two "urinators", they haven't shown any improvement at all in the last two weeks. I don't want to torture them so I'm not giving it to them anymore. For us, it was a waste of money for agitated cats who still keep marking, very disappointing.

Bottom LineNo, I would not recommend this to a friend

Merchant response: Consistent dosing is important & we have a great March 2007 article in our Library on tips for administering remedies you may want to check out.

My cat is 15&1/2. 3 y ago we adopted a 1 y/o German Shepherd dog: WOW WAS SHE HYPER! and big (65# then now about 80#)! Although I restricted the dog to certain rooms and finally got her to calm down around my cat, my cat would have none of it! My cat did not like to hiss at the dog and sometimes would bat at the dog but never scratched the dog, my cat is just not aggressive and she would not change her nature to correct the dog in the way the dog could understand, she prefer to just avoid the conflict. I think the first encounter with the dog just blew her away and gave her PTSD.

After 2 years of only sitting on the highest level of the cat tower in the living room, I discovered this product and started giving it to my cat 1-2x/day (she was also on other flower essences for other conditions so I did not want to overload her). After a while, I think 2-4 wk, I noticed that my kitty did not seem to revile my dog quite so much. I would come home from work and she would be sitting on the cat tower, watching the dog. One night I was upstairs, and strangely, my kitty was downstairs with the dog. I heard a loud running sound that sounded like the dog downstairs. It sounded like dog play-running though. I snuck down the stairs to see if I could get an idea of what was going on before I reprimanded the dog. To my surprise and delight, my cat was sitting on her cardboard scratcher, playfully swatting at the dog whenever the dog came near, then my dog would make a big deal out of this and would romp away as if my cat were going to chase her. It was quite amusing. Shortly after that, my cat started drinking out of the dog's water dish. My dog has 2 beds, one in the crate and one in front of the kitchen window but they are right next to each other--don't ask--anyway, while my dog was on the bed in the crate, my kitty walked over to the bed by the window and sat down on it just to hang out and has done that a few times.

After using an entire small-size bottle, I ran out and did order some more but I have not had to give it that often, it seems to have some longer lasting effects. My cat doesn't hang out with the dog every day, but tolerates the dog much better, makes much better use of common areas and does not move out of the way when the dog comes near, but holds her own and the dog has to go around her. Pretty amazing stuff. Everyone says my cat is especially skittish and anxious. This stuff worked better than prescription medication for anxiety.

I bought this to help ease the tension between an older cat and a new cat. The older cat was attacking the new cat and urinating on my throw rugs to show she was mad.

After giving all the cats this essence in their water twice a day, they all are clamer. The older cat was even sleeping close to the newer cat. AMAZING! She still attacks every now and then but the urinating has stopped and she seems more peaceful.

It's been 2 weeks since we started giving our 3 year old fixed female cat Safe Space for Cats. We have 3 indoor cats and a dog, 2 cats are sisters. About a month and a half ago one of the 3 year old sisters suddenly started to pee in various spots in the house... the bed, the window seat, towels on the washing machine and the futon. The vet checked her out and she had no medical issues so we tried adding another litter box to the 3 we already have. That didn't help. Found this essence here and have been giving it to her for 2 weeks now-- she hasn't peed outside the litterbox! She also seems more relaxed, is sleeping next to her sister and playing with her again! We also put the new fourth litterbox on another floor in the house-- filled with Dr Elsey's Precious Cat scoop-able litter with added Cat Attractant. Maybe it's the combination of the 2 but I really think the essences have brought Gretchen back to how she used to be and feel : )The essences are very easy to administer-- put drops on treats, in food or even drops on fingertips that have touched treats-- she licked the drops right off!

The hope was that use of these drops with a pheromone diffuser would reduce Cat A's anxiety enough that he'd stop marking in the house and hissing at Cat B. After an extended trial it doesn't appear the combination worked for our situation, but I think it was worth giving it a go before reaching for the drugs.

Bottom LineYes, I would recommend this to a friend

Merchant response: Another flower essence remedy may work better - it sounds like the aggressive cat sould use some flower essences, too. We encourage anyone having territory disputes with an aggressive and a scaredy cat consider getting the Ultimate Peacemaker set of essences.

Put it in the wet food at each meal, and even rub some on my cat's head behind the ears if he is agitated in the middle of the night. Seems to be working MOST OF THE TIME. Using with Feliway spray and diffuser. Also, the big problem with this kind of problem is the repetitiveness, so dealing with the actual area he frequents (I use Anti-icky poo) is vital.

We are starting to notice a few spraying issues in the house with our 4 yr. old Ragdoll male cat. He is an only pet. This began after the next door neighbors female domestic short hair started hanging out on our patio out back. My husband gave HER a bowl of cat food one day not knowing any different! Now SHE is OURS or so "SHE" seems to think!!! Although my male Ragdoll was neutured it is purely an aggressive issue with him. He was spraying inside the house at the back door even though he can't see out back. He would also spray the walls surrounding the back door. -- Even if he just sensed she was out there! So,-- The first time I used this I rubbed it on his ears and misted the house (and back door area). What a RELIEF so far. I have noticed a change in him for the BETTER right away!!! This product is WORTH the investment so far. At least for pure breed Ragdolls that are bred to be very calm by nature.

Lost mates, new cat additions, mixing young cats with older cats, PMS happens with cats...Well this has reduced the stress in our cat family, thank you. It is not perfect yet but I am certainly happier with 4 cats who can walk down the hallway and skip the boxing, screaming matches. What joy, I think I see a smile on their faces ever so quickly.